Word: fremdenblatt
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...week gave two specific clues to his choice. Alexander Shkhvartzev, who was named Ambassador to Berlin at the time of the German-Russian Pact, was replaced by V. G. Dekanozov. Dekanozov was formerly Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and accompanied Mr. Molotov to Berlin. When United Press quoted Hamburger Fremdenblatt to the effect that Hungary's adhesion to the Axis was reached "with the cooperation and full authority of Russia," official Tass announced sharply: "This report does not correspond with the facts in any extent...
Ever since World War II first loomed on Sweden's four horizons, such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt have waged a savage campaign of abuse against the Gazette and its owner. Rumor said last winter that Nazi trade negotiators even threatened reprisals against Swedish ship ping unless Editor Segerstedt were silenced (TIME, Feb. 26). Nevertheless, though Sweden was gradually encircled, Torgny Segerstedt went on writing as he pleased...
...savage campaign of abuse has been launched against Segerstedt in such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt. Before Christmas, when Germany and Sweden were on the eve of a long-awaited trade pact, it was an open secret that one Swedish concession demanded by the Nazis was that Torgny Segerstedt be silenced. Rumor said that, for every hostile story in the Gazette, Nazi negotiators threatened to have a Swedish ship sunk without warning...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin planned to start work on his next picture (an all-talkie), first in three years, before January 15. Chaplin wrote the story, will act two parts, one his famed tramp. Title: The Dictator. In Germany, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt charged that Chaplin had been "commissioned" to make the film by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (see p. 5), as "propaganda against a State with which the United States is at peace...